verderben

From a merger of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (strong verb) and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (weak verb). The former is from Old High German *farderban, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fraderban, which is in turn from Proto-Germanic *derbaną (“to perish”).

• IPA^(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈdɛʁbən/
• Hyphenation: ver‧der‧ben
• Homophone: Verderben

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verderben (class 3 strong, third-person singular present verdirbt, past tense verdarb, past participle verdorben, past subjunctive verdürbe, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (transitive) to deprive (someone) of (something); to rob (someone) of (some feeling) [auxiliary haben]
2. (transitive) to ruin; to render (something) useless; to corrupt; to spoil [auxiliary haben]
3. (intransitive, usually of food) to spoil; to rot; to perish [auxiliary sein]
4. (intransitive) to be offensive; to live sinfully [auxiliary sein]

In most contexts, the verb has strong conjugation. However, it has weak conjugation when referring to a written document: Der Text ist verderbt – The text is corrupted. (Chiefly, only the past participle is used in this sense.) Also, in archaic German, verderbt could be used in other senses as well.

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Verderben, Verderber, Verderbung
• verderbend, verdorben
• verderblich, Verderbnis
• viele Köche verderben den Brei
• sich den Magen verderben

• “verderben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “verderben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “verderben” in Duden online
• “verderben” in OpenThesaurus.de